Tariq Elahi
Scholar

Tariq Elahi

Google Scholar ID: Q53Pqs0AAAAJ
Assistant Professor in Cybersecurity and Privacy, School of Informatics - University of Edinburgh
Cybersecurity and PrivacyPrivacy Enhancing TechnologiesSurveillance & Censorship Resistance
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Publications
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Co-authors
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published papers at conferences like WPES (co-located with CCS 2024), FOCI24 (co-located with PETS24), SpaceSec24@NDSS, etc.; awarded a National Research Centre Grant (£8.6M) to work on protecting citizens online through PETs that scale while mitigating their misuse by adversaries; received a New Investigator Award to investigate 'Feedback and Optimisation for Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks'.
Research Experience
  • Currently an Assistant Professor at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; involved in multiple research projects such as secure and private satellite communications, traffic analysis attacks, novel metadata-protecting routing schemes, etc.
Background
  • Research interests include secure and private satellite communications, anonymous communication & censorship resistance, data-driven privacy systems engineering, etc. He is a faculty member of the Security, Privacy, and Trust group (SecPrivTru) and the Laboratory for the Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).
Miscellany
  • Currently recruiting PhD students in Privacy and Security, with project themes including security and privacy of satellite networks, integration & interoperability of PETs in large-scale systems (e.g., E2EE messaging platforms), secure and private machine learning/AI for decision and communication systems, etc.